# Asmaa Fares

Asmaa Fares is a remote worker on Himalayas, Hardware Team Member at Academic Industrial Club (AIC), based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@asmaafares

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Computer engineering graduate building speech and vision AI, including a real-time multimodal emotion recognition system.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 60k+ USD |
| Job categories | Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision Engineer, NLP Engineer, Design Verification Engineer |
| Skills | Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Speech Emotion Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Model Evaluation, Transfer Learning, data preprocessing, UVM Methodology, SystemVerilog, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/asmaafares |
| GitHub | https://github.com/itsAsmaa |

## About

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I designed a real-time speech and face emotion recognition system for my ENCS5300 Graduation Project at Birzeit University. It fuses acoustic and facial-expression features to classify eight emotions, and I deployed it as an interactive Gradio app with live microphone, webcam, and file-upload input.

My projects also include an EfficientNetB3 pipeline for Arabic numeral recognition that reached 99.50% test accuracy, and a multi-task image-text classifier for country and weather prediction. As a Design Verification Intern at Orion VLSI Technologies, I built a UVM/SystemVerilog verification environment for a RISC-V Bit Manipulation Unit, achieved 100% functional coverage, and identified five design bugs.
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## Experience

### Hardware Team Member

Academic Industrial Club (AIC). Sep 2025 - Jul 2026

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Contributed to hands-on hardware design and build projects.
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Skills: Hardware-Design, Teamwork

### Design Verification Intern

Orion VLSI Technologies. Jul 2025 - Oct 2025

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Built a UVM/SystemVerilog verification environment for a Bit Manipulation Unit (BMU) targeting RISC-V BitManip extension instructions. Achieved 100% functional coverage and identified 5 design bugs through constrained-random and directed testing.
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Skills: UVM-Methodology, SystemVerilog, RISC-V, Functional-Coverage, Constrained-Random-Testbenches, Testbench-Design

### Tech Team Member

Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC). Sep 2023 - Sep 2024

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Ran technical workshops and mentored peers on educational technology initiatives; contributed to club project planning and event execution over a one-year term.
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Skills: Workshops, Mentorship, Project-Planning, Event-Execution

### Volunteer Verilog Tutor

Self-Organized

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Led live Zoom sessions over 4 semesters explaining Verilog course projects to peers, with recordings published for ongoing reference.
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Skills: Verilog, Teaching, Communication-Skills, Zoom

## Education

### Birzeit University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

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B.Sc. in Computer Engineering with an emphasis on Intelligent Systems, expected to graduate in July 2026.
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### AWS Educate

AWS Educate, Cloud Computing

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Completed AWS Educate courses covering Cloud 101, Compute, Storage, Networking, Security, Cloud Ops, and Serverless.
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### Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors

Git and GitHub Workshop, Software Development

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Completed the Git and GitHub Workshop offered by Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors.
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### GSG

Authorized Linux Student Instructor, Linux

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Authorized as a Linux Student Instructor by GSG.
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### GSG

Advanced JavaScript Bootcamp, JavaScript

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Completed the Advanced JavaScript Bootcamp, a 24-hour program, offered by GSG.
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### DataCamp

Machine Learning Scientist in Python, Machine Learning

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Completed the Machine Learning Scientist in Python certification, a 85-hour program, in February 2026.
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## Tech stack

- GitHub
- Jupyter
- NumPy
- Pandas
- OpenCV
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- C++
- C
- MATLAB
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Keras
- Streamlit
- NLTK
- Gradio
- SpaCy
- Linux
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- Librosa
- AWS

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